I don't know.Īnd it was another revelation. I got up and sang: There might be a man down there. It all happened by buying a big jug of cheap Cucamonga wine, and every weekend there was a loft party. Ganley: Is there something similar about sketching and painting, and lyric writing? Is there some way that those two art forms meld together for you? Wolf: Yeah, I had a scholarship at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, and I've always painted. Ganley: What's interesting to me is you ended up coming to Boston on a painting scholarship. So music always stayed with me when I came to Boston. And every Wednesday, there I got to see James Brown-and the Motown Revue, and Jackie Wilson, and just every soul artist there was.īy the time I finished high school, I not only got to see the great jazz players like Charlie Mingus, but I got to see all the great R&B artists. I don't know how I got in because I was dyslexic and not a very good student, but I was accepted.īut through my friends who are in the music department, I got to learn about people like Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.Īnd so we would walk 10 blocks down to the Apollo. Wolf: Yeah, I went to a high school called the High School of Music and Art. Ganley: It sounds like you're in New York at the cusp of this kind of folk movement, and the beginning of early first-generation rock and roll kind of intermixing. And it shook me, and it has been shaken me ever since. And one day …a sort of decisive moment a born again experience: hearing Little Richard’s Long Tall Sally. Wolf: You know, he was one of my first concerts. I played that record nonstop, and it was Woody Guthrie. It became one of my first records and the gentleman singing.he sang a song Put Your Finger in the Air. I remember being taken to a place called the Little Red Schoolhouse, where I heard this fellow sing children's songs. He was part of the production of the Merry Widow, and he was a lover of classical music and jazz.Īnd so music was around my life at an early age. He started as a young fella, worked with the Shubert Theater, and he traveled around the United States… and he actually played Boston and parts of New Hampshire in the 1930s. The conversation started with his early days growing up in New York. NHPR's Rick Ganley talked with him ahead of a show here in New Hampshire. Wolf left the band after that record, and today at age 75, he's still making music and touring. That band became a staple of rock radio around the country, with a record contract demanding two albums a year, and constant touring. Get NHPR's reporting about politics, the pandemic, and other top stories in your inbox - sign up for our newsletter today. To celebrate Mick Jagger’s birthday, Geils, Richards, Wood, Peter Wolf, Seth Justman, and Bobby Keys.Musician Peter Wolf made his name and fame in the 1970s and 80s as the stage prowling, rhyming front-man for the Boston-based J. Geils Band was opening for The Rolling Stones. He was in a band with Keith Richards and Ron Wood.ĭon’t get too excited: the band – called The (Original) Carltones – apparently played precisely once, and for the duration of a single song.At various points in their career, the Eagles, Billy Joel, ZZ Top, Yes, the Allman Brothers, and U2 opened for Geils and the band. In case you’re suspicious that this is mere hyperbole, we can assure you that it is not. Some of the most successful artists of the ‘70s and ‘80s opened for The J.Geils Band, they played gigs under the name “Snoopy and the Sopwith Camels.” (No word on which one of them was ostensibly Snoopy.) Obviously, both Danny and Magic Dick continued working with Geils, but before they evolved into The J. Prior to the founding of the band that bore his name, Geils was in an acoustic blues trio with Danny Klein and harmonica player Richard “Magic Dick” Salwitz. If he wasn’t a Peanuts fan, one of his early bandmates apparently was. (In short order, Geils was working out how to play Davis songs on trumpet and drums.) In a nice nod to his past, when Geils finally got around to releasing a solo album in 2005, it was entitled J. Geils’ father was a big jazz fan, one who played albums by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman around the house and took his son to see Louis Armstrong in concert for his 10 th birthday and to see Miles Davis for his 13 th birthday.
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